Wolfson ball 2010

Wolfson ball is probably my favourite of the Oxford college balls at the moment. That may be because it has been a regular event in my diary for the past 4 years or so (except for last year when Tony Culshaw Photography covered for me), but it is probably largely because Wolfson is such a small friendly college. Being a small relatively low-cost ball, I never make much money from shooting there, but I always feel very welcome and enjoy being there much more than some other balls.

I was very pleased with the photo montage above at this years ball. A group of seven came to us wanting to create a photo spelling Wolfson. I think their idea was to try to make the letters with their hands and get all seven of them in the one shot. I wasn’t convinced by that idea, so suggested the above. The idea for the above is photo was partly stolen from the few nursery/pre-school photos that my daughter has been in. Rather than attempting get 30 toddlers all looking at the camera, the company that does their photos does so in batches of 5 or so, and then creates a montage with all the groups. Since I only had the seven people involved everyone appears a few more times in this. I was particularly impressed by the effort put in by the chaps to make the letter S. The only problem with doing such a photo is that it can’t really be printed at standard photo sizes. But doing it was a lot of fun – typical of what I love about Wolfson ball.

It was my birthday at this years’ Wolfson ball. I would post a photo of me on my birthday (taken by ball president wanting to swap roles with the camera), but it was decided that I needed to buy myself a new dress shirt for my birthday!